In the capitalist Free World, the Coca Cola company helped to push the Santa Claus mythos across the mainstream: Fat Man, Coke Red suit, enjoying a soda.
It was thought harmless, a taste of joy and light for the masses. The Christmas Spirit, however without Christ, and nary once referencing the Christmas story.
Then we're given a film called the Christmas Story in which we see modern culture come forward and devoured Christ, a kind of post-Christian quasi-Christian Christ-less season of giving.
And the boy, Ralphie, we would remember, barely smiled, but seem to just careen and pass through various scenes of little wants and traditions rendered almost meaningless.
Of life without Christ, the Bible gives us a horrifying glimpse in the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations, as Jeremiah was left behind in the ruin of Israel after the captivity. He was witnessed horrors, borne of necessity, as the remnant struggled to survive.
Modern culture perhaps, "#thestruggleisreal" as how we too thrash about and beg in a world that is losing Christ, more and more.
However.
We are the representatives, we are the "little Christs" we are the modern disciples, we the believers. We are the humble that the Lord sent to perplex the wise.
We can bring Christ back in our examples, and no I don't advocate "works" per se, like a regimen of course that would endear us back to God's busom, but instead a reminder for the society around us.
A reminder of.
The spirit of Christ.
The spirit of giving.
The spirit of Love.
We can be that as we hold the torch for the Christian world, just like the early light at the cave on Easter morning.
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